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CORNELIUS L. ALLEN, OF SALEM, NEW YORK.

SHIPPING BOX.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CORNELIUS L. ALLEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Salem, in the county of Washington and State of New York, have invent-ed new and useful Improvements in Shipping-Boxes, of which the followin is a specification.

The invention rates to an improvement in shipping boxes designed primarily for the convenient and safe transportation of live chicks.

In the transportation of chickens over extended distances it is essential that the chickens be furnished with a certain amount of and a continued supply of fresh air, and in the transportation of chicks with which this invention is more directly concerned it is absolutely essential to the safe delivery of the chicks that all draft be avoided during the admission of the fresh air.

One of the main objects of the present invention, therefore, is to provide a. shipping box in which the chicks may be confined for transportation, the box being so constructed as to provide for the inlet of an essential quantity of fresh air and an outlet for the escape of vitiated air, the inlet and out-let being so relatively arranged as to avoid draftduring the ventilation.

Another Object is the provision of means whereby the successive arranging of a series of boxes in superimposed relation during transportation will not interfere with the ventilation and fresh air supply of any particular box.

The invention will be described in the following specification, reference being had particularly to the accompanying drawings, in which:- u

Figure 1 is a perspective of a shipping box constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical central section of the same. Fig. 3 is a broken erspective of the box with the cover removed, and Fig. L is a. section of the preferred material of which the box is constructed.

Referring particularly to the aecompanying drawing, wherein is shown the preferred form of the present invention, my improved shipping box is made up of a body 1 and cover 2. The material of which the parts Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed. August 25, 1908.

Patented Aug'. 24, 1909.

Serial No. 450,235

are to be constructed is not important in the present invention, though it is understood that the material used must be such as to protect the chicks against sudden changes of temperature. As an effective material to this end and also in the matter of economy I prefer to' utilize that form of paper board illustrated in section in Fig. 4, wherein the upper and lower layers of the board are separated by a series of cells formed of appropriate material. In

this form of board the cells provide deadair spaces which eifectively protect the interior of the box against dampness and changes in temperature.

In detailed structure the body 1 comprises a bottom' 3, side walls 4, and end walls 5, all of said parts being preferably integral, as shown; In forming the box the side walls 'are preferably of the full length of the blank from which the body is formed, so that when the walls are turned up into box forming position there is provided at each end of each side wall an extension 6, which projeets beyond the upturnecl end wall. These extensions 6 are then turned inward to overlie and bear upon the relatively outer surface of the end walls, being secured to the latter to maintain the side and end walls in box forming position. As the preferred material of which the box is to be constructed is of substantial thickness it will be Obvious that that part of the end wall between the proximate edges of the extensions 6 is of less thickness than throughout the width of said extensions, whereby there is provided a ventilating space 7 between the proximate edges of the extensions 6, for a purpose which will presently appear. The side walls and end walls are formed in their upper edges with a series of semicylindrical depressions or notches S, which notches open through the relatively upper edge of the particular wall; The notches are regularly spaced, that is the -eentralnotch occupies a central position relbetween the proximate edges of the extension 6, as clearly shown in Fig. 3.

The cover 2 includes a top plate 9 and side walls 10 and end walls 11, the cover being also made of material Similar to that of the body but differing therefrom in thatthe side and end walls are cut from the blank to permit their adjacent edges to contact when turned down into position, a reinforcing strip 12 being secured to the corners to hold the walls'm cover' formng position. The interior dimensions of the cover correspond to' the cover is slightly greater than the Similar dimensions of the body, so that the side walls 1-0 of the cover when in position will be spaced from the side walls 1 of the body. Centrally of the cover there is provided a ventilating Opening 13,- and arranged about and concentric with the central Opening 13 is a series of additional openings 14, these latter openings, however, being of materially less diameter than the central Opening. Adjacent each corner of the cover there is for-med a ventilating Opening 15 and a disk 16' is' movably mounted on the box adjacent the central ventilating openings to provide for controlling said openings at will.

On' each corner of the cover there is secured' atrian'gular section 17, which is of greater thickness than that of the disk 16 and of such size to avoid covering of the ventilating Opening 15.

In the detailed structure of the improvement it is found that the size of the ventilati'n'g o'penings is important in order to ayo-i'd' a draft, and experience has demonstrated that the central Opening 13 should be one-'half inch in diameter While the openin gs 14 and 15 are of three-eighths inch in d i'anieter.- F urthermore, the holes 15 should be exa'ctly one inch from the side edges of the cover adjacent said" openings, these deta i ls applying to al l sizes of boxes.

As the cover sii-ugly fits the extension 6 it will be Obvious that the inner surfaces of the end walls 11 of the cover are, by the extension 6, inaintained spaced from the end wall of the body, hence the ventilating space 7 herei nbefore noted is open to the free adnission of air. As the' air is admitted at the upper edg'es of the sides and ends and is drawn through the cover of the box it is at once obvious that an adequate supply of fresh air is admitted to the chicks, while by virtue of the conparativel'y tortuous path through which the air musttravel all danger of draft is avoided. The sections 17, hereinafter ter'ned spacing blocks, are designed to pr'ev'ent the Closing of the ventlatng openin'gs by the piling of the boxes in transportati on, it being Obvious that by means of these blocks the bottom of the superimposed box will be so spaced from the top of the underlying box as to provide for a free current of air through the ventilating openings 13, 14: and 15.

In shipping boxes for twenty-five or fifty chioks I prefer to have the interior of the box as a single compartment, while for a larger number of chicks it has been found desirable to divide the interior of the box by a series of partitions to provide compartnents. In this event the relatively upper edges of the partitions will be forned- With ventilating. notches similar to the notches 8 in the body. In the improved transportation box described it will be obvious that the chicks will be given a definite supply of fresh air during transportation and that the vitiated air will find ready escape, the arrangement of the vent-ilating openings avoiding all draft while furnishing the supply of fresh air necessary. Furthermore, experience has demonstrated that in the transportation box for holding twenty-five chicks the central ventilating openings must be less than in the box for' the larger number of chicks, or more exactly the box for holding twenty-five chicks must have precisely five ventilating openings in its cover, while that for holding fifty chicks, which is the one illustrated, must have Seven ventilating openings, the box for one-hundred chicks must have nine such openngs. por-tance in devices of this character, as precisely the proper ventil'ati'on must be provided in order to avoid smothering the chicks and also avoid' the disadvantage of too much draft.

Having thus described the invention what is claimed as new, is

1. A transportation box for chicks comprising a body having the side walls extended beyond and secured to the outer surface of the end walls, the proximate edge of said extensions being spaced apart, the upper edges of the side and end walls being formed with notches, the notches of the end walls.

being arranged in the space between the proximate edge of the extensions, and a cover snugly fitting over the extensions of the side walls, said cover being formed with ventilating openings, and spacing blocks carried by the cover at the corners thereof.

2. A transportation box for ch-oks comprising a body having the side walls extended beyond and secured to the outer surface of the end walls, the proximate edge of said extensions being spaced apart, the upper edges of the side and end walls being formed These details are of essential imwith notches, the notches of the end walls r being arranged in the space between the .proxi-mate edges of the extensions, and a cover snugly fitting over the extensions of the side walls, said cover being forned with :L Central ventilating Opening and with a series of coneentrically arranged Ventlating openings of less diameter than the Central Opening, said cover being also formed With a oent'zl Opening adjacent each corner thereof.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two wtnesses.

OORNELIUS L. ALLEN.

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W. C. LAMON, WM. DILLON. 

